DSL Pages Often Do Not Load

I have DSL and often my browser does not load a page. The error message that page cannot be displayed or server cannot be found appears. Sometimes the problem is very temporarily "corrected" by disconnecting and reconnecting the DSL by the icon in the system tray and on the desktop.

I have checked physical connections, changed browsers - Maxthon, IE, Firefox, run AVG Anti-virus, Adaware, Webroot Spy Sweeper, all with updated definitions, deleted tempory files, cache, unplugged the Siemens Speedstream external modem, shut down machine overnight and rebooted in the a.m., checked browser security settings, shut down AVG and Zone Alarm, formatted hard drive.

I have tried many different sites including Microsoft and Google at various times and have not been able to view those sites in several instances. The sites are up, the performance of the DSL and or my machine is down. I never had this problem before my switch from dial-up to DSL five days ago. When I am not experiencing this problem, DSL speed is consistently 3-5 Mbps. Download speed is typically 600kb per second, both of which obviously is of no help when the pages do not load. Actually, when a page fails to load, the operation has timed out. Approx. a dozen calls to the ISP has been to no avail whatsoever.

OS is Win XP Pro, Pentium 111 500 Mhz., 320Mb. Ram, WD Raptor Hard Drive, 3Com3C918 Integrated Ethernet Controller (3C 9058B-TX Compatible).

Any attempt to help is truly much appreciated.

 

May be this can Help, http://www.ezlan.net/PPPOE.html

 

My DSL is lightning fast now and that without a miss or a sputter!

Hallelujah, Jesus!

I installed Windows XP Service Pack 2 and this totally brought about the results I was looking for.

Went to one hundred plus sites from Google (ten to a page) and all loaded very, very fast except that two or three did not load at all. (The latter, of course, is to be expected). Apparently one or more files were corrupted and/or missing and/or there was some sort of conflict that the Service Pack resolved. Rebooted my machine and I was given the same stellar performance after surfing to numerous sites.

Thanks much to each one of you for your suggestions.